Question for the older (30+) posters

[hitony]

Music Tastes still exactly the same really

I dont read as much as i used to, i think this is down to 2 things, 1) the internet, 2) im alot busier these days and just dont seem to find the time to read (maybe thats just a weak excuse ?)

Food, i dont think my food habits have changed any

As for women.........i still lust after 18 year olds.....so definatly no change there !!! (well apart from the fact, thats all i can do..........is lust after them !!!!! )

 

[Ned]

The main change is I now prefer red wine to white

 

[Dave the OAP]

I'm the opposite. I missed out on a lot being exiled and having to bring up a family on very little money so now making up for it.
I shall be looking forward to getting my OAP concession in Aug 2008 at Falmer as that is my 60th birthday.

When we were first married and certainly up until I started working in London, we were constantly brassic and had no spare money to do anything. Now we have, we intend to use it to the full....football is becoming less of a treat ( as it used to be). I can honestly say, apart from the Palace away game, I cant say I have looked forward to a game for quite a while ( probably since the Playoff final)

In fact this is the first time for 30 odd years I have seriously given thought to not renewing my season ticket. As mrs DTG prefers rugby anyway, it gives us another option.

I am hoping to go on holiday to La manga so I can get her some lessons in golf, now I have retired from cricket, thet will be great if we can do something like Golf together.....

 

[Gully]

I am still at the stage where football is a luxury, I am in the process of putting my house up for sale, with view to moving a couple of rungs up the housing ladder, my priorities are firmly in bricks and mortar at the moment and not on watching the Albion (will still try to get to a few games a season regardless).

 

[Gwylan]

Having spent the weekend painting, I know what Gully means about putting efforts in bricks and mortar.

There's definitely a shifting of priorities as you get older: where once I spent all my money on drink, music, books and football, I now spend most of my money at B&Q and on the mortgage.

I still have my Albion season ticket but haven't been to an away game this season yet. If I don't go to one, it will be the first time since 1974 that I've missed out. I'm certainly better off than I was 25 years ago, but I feel time-poor.

 

[corrallt]

In my 50s now.
Still obsessed with Bob Dyaln and the Albion.
Probably enjoying watching the Albion more now than when I wa a kid as i go to a lot more away games now.
Still basically like the same music - just yeaterday bought 2 Incredible String Band CDs that I only had on vinyl, plus Harvest by Neil Young.
Have seen Dylan every tour since 1978. read almost every book about him.
As for orher reading: as I sit here next to my bookshelves can see rows of William faulkner, James Joyce William conrad, that I avidly read in my 20s, now would have to be at a very loose end to return to them. Tend to read Ian McEwan, nick Hornby etc.
Two kids - 19 and 21- have kept me young ie up to date with music, going to concerts and Glastonbury.
Still with my wife who i was going out with when i was 15.

 

[pasty]

We have discovered travellinmg recently ( easyjet, Ryan Air BA weekend breaks etc) and in some way football gets in the way of things like that. I used to book holidays around the football season....no more.

I can relate to that DtG. Last weekend I missed the Leeds game in favour of a trip to Ireland for £2.99 each (plus taxes = £20 each) with Ryan Air. OK, so it was a family christening as well, but 10 or 15 years ago, I would not have gone.

 

[Gully]

Last season was my first since 81/82 when I didn't make a home game, although I did manage 8 out of the last 10 away (since 89 I have only spent 4 years in England). So far this season I have only been to two games but will definitely be at Coventry in two weeks time, hope to make at least another couple before the end of the season. I know what Gwylan means about B&Q, they opened a really huge one in Gloucester a few months back, it is absolutely amazing....

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Music - Basically still listen to the same stuff I did 'when I was young' - Jam, Clash etc - but I guess i've mellowed a bit and now enjoy a much wider variety - anything from Bob Dylan to Elton John. Even quite enjoy Robbie Williams as a performer.

Food - having done a fair amount of travelling, I'll eat just about anything, and try to encourage my family to do the same. Korean is the worst I've had btw. We certainly eat a lot more varieties of food than when I was growing up - Chicken Chow Mein ' was about the limit in the early 70s

Of course it's easier now to prepare and plan meals - hardly anyone had freezers when we were growing up - a small ice box with a packet of peas in was about it for the frozen food.

Go the the Cinema less (and the theatre more, although not as much as I would like)

Watch more sport (and play less - although I do go to the gym 5 times a week - and yet I used to hate training when I played)

Read more - travel books and easy read 'airport novels' such as John Grisham's books.

Have the same friends I had when I was a kid - we're all over the country now but keep in touch and meet up at least once a year.Budapest for a few days in May this year.

Still love watching the Albion - get a bigger buzz at away games although I think that's always been the case, not just because of Withdean. The Goldsone was a pretty sombre place for the last 4 or 5 years - somethimes people on here think it was 30,000 every week.

Hardly watch any England games live any more. Used to Travel everywhere - from the early 80s (Euros in Italy, through Spain 82, German Euros, Sweden, Italia 90 etc etc) watching England was great - but I guess I just got bored of it. Not going to Germany this year although if we do get to the Final i guess i would go - i think i've earn't the right after some of the godforsaken places i've been to in the name of supporting England.

Drink a lot less beer now - used to go out Thursday, Friday Saturday nights (and still play football!)and a Sunday lunchtime used to start at 12.00 and finish late. Sundays tend to be Family days out or decorating now!

Be lucky now to go to a pub once or twice a week - prefer a decent red wine and the company of my wife (of 15 years) and son!


What a good thread - really got me thinking!

 

[Dover]

Football means more to me today than it ever has done, and I am dreading the thump on the mat of the Season Ticket renewal. Again I have managed to save nothing towards it.

In the last two years I feel a bit more adult. Krispies is now married with two kids, and we would think nothing of having a skinful in the evening during the week.

I think that as life around me has changed so I have around it. I know i have become a lot more mellower in the past two years or so, and stop, or attempt to before opening my big mouth.

Musically I have got chart albums at the moment, but they are either by old hands, or by artists that are influenced by those same old hands I have loved in the passed.

Reading is a pure pleasure now, and I tend to read biographys more than anything else. Prior to that it was crime. It must also be added that from 13 to 20 I never read. then from 24 to 28 I went back to education to do the job I do now.

 

[A Melbourne Albion Supporter]

I still read a lot, but over the last year or so i have returned to some of th books i read in high school to see if they held up. Some have, others haven't.

Most of the books i read are for law or for furthering my understanding of political and historical events.

 

[Gully]

I would never have classed Reading as a pleasure, it has always been a grotty little hole somewhere between London and Bristol for me.

 

[Gwylan]

This thread has gone in a different direction from the one I envisaged, with people talking about how they've changed as people. It's hard for me to comment on this as my parents went through an acrimonious separation/divorce when I was 18-20 which had an effect on the way I viewed the world - it would be hard to disentangle that from how I would have been if that hadn't happened. Certainly interesting to hear other views though.

I'm glad that other people have said that they don't read the same books as they did, seems I'm not alone in that.

As for food, one thing I didn't take into account was how much Britain has changed in the last 30 years. When I was growing up, garlic was exotic, olive oil was sold in chemists, spice was a small jar of mixed spice and chilli was a country in South America: how things have changed for the better there.